cdibona

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   by cdibona 16y ago

   You're wrong in many ways. 1) They have principles. I know the GC personally and he is a very principled guy. So are ev and biz. 2) Having principles isn't counter to the ability to recognize gains. In fact, the idealist in me hopes and has
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   by cdibona 16y ago

   So this is a good post from Gayle, but I would add that the times when the committees I've been on cared to see grades are when a candidate is on the bubble between hire and no hire and they are within 2 or 3 years out of school. So grades
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   by cdibona 16y ago

   Yep, that's how it goes. How embarrassing.
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   by cdibona 16y ago

   Then you'll love Cory Doctorow's term for those that work on such hardward and software: Vichy-Nerds. Seriously, hackers, maybe some on this site, write this software and design this hardware, to do these things. Maybe a better question is
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   by cdibona 16y ago

   "The set may not be resold, sub-licensed or rented." and thus incompatible with all open source licenses.
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   by cdibona 16y ago

   Yes. I didn't cut this deal, mind you, so I can't speak for Gisele, but we do indeed make these kinds of investments if anything as early as possible in a region. It might be perceived as riskier, but I would say that it's likely only sligh
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   by cdibona 16y ago

   (I'm a googler, but I didn't cut this deal , so I can't speak to the deal teams) I was just in jordan and met a number of Palestinians (expat and visiting from the region) and I can only say that they seemed as technical as any hacker I've
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   by cdibona 16y ago

   So contracts and bank loans take a higher strata of employees to approve, but I've been given authority on open source matters. It's not practical to have a signed document on file with every project, but we do have such documents on file w
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   by cdibona 16y ago

   This is actually a big can of worms, what with it having so much to do with state, federal and international law and treaty (wipo, amongst others). It is often unfair. All I can act on from this fairness perspective is Google's interactions
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    by cdibona 16y ago

    But in this case, we released the code , under Google Copyright, into a BSD project and under a BSD license.
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    by cdibona 16y ago

    Actually, he did get clearance, that's not immediately apparant from his thread, but he was granted permission to release code into the Snap Framework under Google's copyright and an open source license.
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    by cdibona 16y ago

    See above. Since we clear employees for open source work, we can generally say that Google contributions into opens source are reviewed and okay.
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    by cdibona 16y ago

    So this is really the only proper response. If you work for a company in the US or in Europe, they have claim to your creativity and work. If you don't like it, work for yourself. (see my post above for how we deal with it at Google)
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    by cdibona 16y ago

    So, under California law, which is probably the most liberal in the United States coving IP, you are prescribed from competing with your employer even on your own time or on your own equipment. This is reinforced in industry employment agre
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    by cdibona 16y ago

    You people do understand that no one should ever ask the manhole question, right?
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    by cdibona 16y ago

    It's almost never worth paying for this kind of television. Both at VA Linux and every company I've worked at since has had bottom feeders trying to get us to buy access to such gems as 'buntings window' for ridiculous sums of money. You're
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    by cdibona 16y ago

    We don't have any materials that are can be strong enough along the entire length of the strand to use in an elevator, and likely will not for some time. 142 gigapascals, along say 38,000 kilometers, ain't easy. (Disclaimer, I work for goog
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    by cdibona 16y ago

    A more interesting observations is that since he processes search through Yahoo's (bings?) BOSS, and BOSS keeps logs...
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    by cdibona 16y ago

    I'll third that, its downright inspirational.
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    by cdibona 16y ago

    You hire 20k people over 10 years and make not one mistake? Iknow you are being snarky, but there is no perfect hiring process, no matter what you measure.
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    by cdibona 16y ago

    Wait, are you saying that we should be reacting to the PR (we didn't, he was let go some time ago) or to the act? I would always rather we react appropriately to the act. (disclaimer, work at google, blah blah blah)
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    by cdibona 16y ago

    You can pickup fully unlocked dev phones here: http://android.brightstarcorp.com/index.htm This has been the case since october of 2008. There has always been an unlocked option for developers/users. Consumers can buy those too, but they'
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    by cdibona 16y ago

    I agree, and I work at google.
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    by cdibona 16y ago

    Damn!
25. 235.▲
    by cdibona 16y ago

    It's Thursday!
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    by cdibona 16y ago

    Remember that Firefox was named phoenix, then firebird, then firefox. People take this kind of thing pretty seriously. I'm just saying it would save you a lot of trouble later.
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    by cdibona 16y ago

    I've tried mailman, over 10+ years ago.
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    by cdibona 16y ago

    I would point out that it's not so much "other big companies" as it is what we've learned from our own sucking.
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    by cdibona 16y ago

    We're hardly anti-ruby. The lack of ruby projects was a coincidence, honestly. (I know, was there :-)
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    by cdibona 16y ago

    Or australia (with under 30 million people, quite small), as they have that whole drop bear problem to deal with.